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All Project Management News - January 2008

Socitm leadership issues need to be addressed, says review

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Author: Rebecca Thomson
Date: 30 January 2008

The local government IT directors group, needs to resolve leadership issues before it can fulfil a lead role in delivering the government's IT professionalism agenda, initial findings from the organisation's corporate service review reveal.

Project portfolio management offers clarity in IT investment strategy

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Author: Geoff Reiss
Date: 28 January 2008

The bottom-up process of identifying and approving projects in most organisations is highly emotional and intensely political. The result is often a plethora of projects doomed to failure. Project portfolio management is emerging as a solution.

Network engineers with project management skills earn more

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Author: John-Paul Kamath
Date: 24 January 2008

Network engineers should learn project management skills such as budgeting and scheduling as they come under pressure to deliver advanced networks for businesses, said attendees at the Cisco Networkers 2008 event this week.

Companies pay over the odds for project management, say project managers

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 23 January 2008

Companies are paying too much for their project management contracts, according to project managers.

William Hill's in-house IT development failure raises questions

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Author: Cliff Saran
Date: 16 January 2008

The failure of William Hill's Nextgen online betting platform, which was developed in-house, raises questions about whether IT directors should embark on business-critical software development projects in-house or use third parties.